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of the Over Easy Mountain Bike Route, the whole canopy bowed with the weight of the rain. My single-track ribbon had become a river full of frogs. This is not an exaggeration. My back tire was leaving a wake. Turns out frogs stand their ground. Their eyes glowed in the light of my head lamp as I pedaled toward and then around

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